Rogue Traders (2001)

Country

United Kingdom

How it feels

This show follows a journalist and a private investigator as they catch dishonest tradespeople on hidden camera. They set up sting operations to expose businesses that rip off customers. The goal is to hold bad workers accountable for their scams.

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What happens

Rogue Traders is a BBC One investigative/undercover consumer affairs television programme starring Matt Allwright, an investigative journalist, and Dan Penteado, a private investigator and Allwright's co-host. The show focuses on investigating and exposing the dubious work practices of tradespeople and businesses who have received complaints against them from their customers, often through the use of hidden cameras and rigged situations, sometimes sending members of the show's research team undercover to secretly record any training methods taught to a business' employees that is suspicious or unethical. The programme ran for nine series between 2001 and 2009, before it was decided to incorporate Rogue Traders' format as a multi-part segment for the long-running consumer series Watchdog; the segment retained the show's name after its merger in 2009. In 2012, Penteado was removed from the show, after he was jailed for benefit fraud. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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